the craziest thing about porn i'm dr trish leigh cognitive neuroscientist and sex addiction
recovery coach in this video i actually want to share with you the five craziest things about porn
that you probably don't know the number one okay let's go number one crazy thing about porn
is that it is damaging your brain and you probably don't even know that it is we know from the
science that porn knocks out your frontal lobe and desensitizes the reward center in your brain
and what that means is it's causing mental health issues like anxiety and depression
it creates lack of motivation it creates social anxiety it creates cognitive issues
with your thinking and your memory brain fog lack of ability to concentrate and to stay focused
we know that it creates physical problems number one erectile dysfunction so that is the number
one craziest thing that we have going on in terms of porn number two is that you don't even realize
that it's happening until it's late it's not too late but it's late so someone put a comment
on the channel yesterday saying i love porn and i don't want to give it up i'm like i'm sure you do
nobody wants to give it up until it creates problems for them which it absolutely will
create problems for you some day it has to so it's a downward spiral there's only downward
spirals or upward spirals in this thing there's no such thing as a horizontal spiral so of course you
don't want to give it up because if you don't have any problems associated with it why would
you because it's serving your nervous system but in fact it's damaging your brain so you will have
thinking or memory problems you will struggle with erectile dysfunction or premature ejaculation your
relationship's gonna suffer you'll no longer find your partner attractive and you'll start looking
at other people even though you don't mean to or want to and you won't even associate it with porn
that is the craziest thing you will start looking at young people if that's what you're consuming
and you'll be like what is going on you may become attracted to men and you'll be like i don't think
i'm gay but same-sex attraction is a thing in porn it's increasing erectile dysfunction is increasing
so this is the craziest thing is that it's insidious you won't track your health problems
your relationship problems or any of the strange things that you have going on back to porn and you
won't even realize it's a problem for you until you have one of those problems don't associate
it with porn and don't know what to do about it that is one of the craziest things you can't even
feel it taking control of you and my tagline is control your brain or it will control you
it might have a full-fledged hold on your brain and you might not even know it you might still
think it's a casual habit for you and if you think that try to give it up and see what happens
because it could be a full-blown porn addiction and you don't even think it is it could be on this
cycle that's so predictable you may have behavior changes that you can't even see in yourself that
other people are seeing that creates all this disruption and you don't even know
it's got a hold of your brain uh the number four craziest thing about porn is that you love it
and despise it simultaneously so it's serving your nervous system it's giving you tons of dopamine
it's making your brain feel good in the moment the dopamine deluge but it's creating
the dopamine deficit in your life you lack motivation you can't get out of your bed so you
love it and you despise it and you love it when you're doing it or when you're thinking
about it but then there's certain times where you're like i'm never doing that again because
right now i don't need it and you will cycle cycle cycle through a loop of love and hate and lastly
is what you probably don't know is that porn is derailing you from your full potential it's
knocked you off the track of your best trajectory of development so think of yourself like a rocket
ship that's being launched from the earth into outer space now if you didn't have a porn habit
your rocket ship would go like this up to the moon right full potential achieved but if you're
watching porn it's derailing you and it's going like this and your full potential is only here now
it's seriously doing that to you which is why i'm here because i don't want that for you what
i want is right now your trajectory is going like this if you have a porn habit but if you leave it
behind guess what it's going to go like this full potential here you come so those are the
five craziest things about porn that i hope you understand are actually happening to you
even though you might not know it i know people have said to me so what you're telling me is you
know more about me than i know about me and the reality might be yes because self-awareness can be
really low if you're wrapped up in this thing the narcissistic bubble makes your brain think about
porn and sex all the time and it's fog you can't even see the forest for the trees so come out
of the screen get on purpose in your life and if you're looking for help reach out to medocilli.com
my 90-day program has everything that you need and as always control your brain or it'll control you